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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458031203321

Titolo

Arts activism, education, and therapies : transforming communities across Africa / / edited by Hazel Barnes ; contributors Gordon Collier [and five others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, Netherlands : , : Rodopi, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

94-012-1054-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (307 p.)

Collana

Matatu ; ; Number 44

Journal for African Culture and Society

Disciplina

792.022

Soggetti

Ethnic theater

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Figures and Tables; Introduction; Art for Social Change; Imagination and Agency: Facilitating Social Change through the Visual Arts; Theatre in Combat with Violence: The University of Zimbabwe Department of Theatre Arts and Amani Trust Popular Travelling Theatre Project on Political Violence and Torture - Some Basic and Non-Basic Contradictions; Dance as a Communication Tool: AddressingInter-Generational Trauma for a Healthier Psycho-SocialEnvironment in Rwanda and the Great Lakes Region of Africa

Exploring Conflict Management Strategies throughApplied Drama: A Wits University Case StudyDancing Drumming and Drawing the Unspeakable:An Exploration of an Arts-Based Programme as ComplementaryInterventions in the Diversion of Youth Sex Offenders; Arty, Africa, and Healing; Music, Musicality, and Musicking:Between Therapy and Everyday Life; Catharsis and Critical Reflection in IsiZulu Prison Theatre:A Case Study from Westville Correctional Facility in Durban; In Between Activism and Education: Intervention Theatre in Kenya; Washa Mollo: Theatre as a Milieu for Conversations and Healing

The Keep Them Safe 2010 Project: Using Story to Structurea Programme with Sustainable Impact for 7,000 ChildrenElephant in the



Theatre: The Ethics and Politics ofNarration in an International Collaboration; Supporting Educators to Support Learners: An ArtCounselling Intervention with Educators; Performing Cultural Memory and the Symbolic: The MusicalTheatre Traditions of the Basarwa in the Ghanzi District, Botswana; Christine's Room: Re/Voicing the Document; Arts and Aesthetics; Applied Art Is Still Art, and By AnyOther Name Would Smell As Sweet

Dramatic Art at the Frontiers of Ontology:Reconsidering AestheticsPostcards on the Aesthetic of Hope in Applied Theatre; Researching the Theatricality and Aesthetics of Applied Theatre; Notes on Contributors; Onomastic Index; Notes for Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

This second volume of research emanating from Drama for Life, University of the Witwatersrand, explores the transformative and healing qualities of the arts in South Africa, Botswana, Cameroon, Kenya, Rwanda, and Zimbabwe. Essays on arts for social change illuminate the difficulties of conflict-resolution (in war-scarred countries, tertiary institutions, and child-offender programmes) to promote broader understanding of diversity and difference. Further essays focus on arts and healing, in which music therapy diagnoses, repairs, sustains, and enhances collective health. Intervention theatre -